Serverless: From Bad Practices to Good Solutions

Davide Taibi; Ben Kehoe; Danilo Poccia

doi:10.1109/SOSE55356.2022.00016

Serverless: From Bad Practices to Good Solutions

Davide Taibi
, Ben Kehoe
, Danilo Poccia

Computing Sciences

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

7 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Serverless computing is increasing its popularity in the industry. However, practitioners still have issues when using it, also because serverless bad practices, bad smells, and anti-patterns have not been deeply investigated. In this work, we identify the main bad practices experienced by practitioners during the development of serverless-based applications. We interviewed 91 experienced practitioners and we performed a focus group to analyze the solutions they adopted to solve the issues generated by the bad practice. Moreover, we propose the most appropriate solutions based on our professional experience. The results can be helpful to other practitioners to avoid facing the same issues, to understand how to overcome them, and to researchers that can better validate them and propose alternative solutions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 16th IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering, SOSE 2022
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	85-92
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665475341
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SOSE55356.2022.00016
Publication status	Published - 2022
Publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering - Newark, United States Duration: 15 Aug 2022 → 18 Aug 2022

Publication series

Name	Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering
Publisher	IEEE
ISSN (Electronic)	2642-6587

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Exhibition	IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering
Country/Territory	United States
City	Newark
Period	15/08/22 → 18/08/22

Funding

ACKNOWLEDGMENT This material is based upon work supported by the Ulla Tuominen (Shapit) Grant.

Keywords

anti-patterns
bad smells
cloud-native
function-as-a-service
Microservices
serverless

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Publication forum level 1

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Information Systems and Management
Control and Systems Engineering

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Taibi, D, Kehoe, B & Poccia, D 2022, Serverless: From Bad Practices to Good Solutions. in Proceedings - 16th IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering, SOSE 2022. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering, IEEE, pp. 85-92, IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering, Newark, United States, 15/08/22. https://doi.org/10.1109/SOSE55356.2022.00016

Serverless: From Bad Practices to Good Solutions. / Taibi, Davide; Kehoe, Ben; Poccia, Danilo.
Proceedings - 16th IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering, SOSE 2022. IEEE, 2022. p. 85-92 (Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering).

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